Primavera Fotografica
Catalonia's Link
To Global Photo Fests

By

Taylor Holliday

Updated May 19, 2000 12:33 a.m. ET

Barcelona

T wenty years ago there were no photography festivals aimed at the general public. Now suddenly they are everywhere. And more than that, they are linked, in a vast global union of events that spread across the year -- from Houston in March to Paris in November. Right now it's Barcelona's turn.

Paris was the first city to recognize photography's rising profile in the art world, and in 1980 it inaugurated the biennial...